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Reactive REST
Jafar Husain explains how Netflix uses reactive programming to build and consume REST endpoints, and how they work around the limitations of the HTTP protocol to create high-performance REST APIs.
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Making Java Groovy
Ken Kousen advises Java developers how to do similar tasks in Groovy: building and testing applications, accessing both relational and NoSQL databases, accessing web services, and more.
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RESTfully Async with Grails 2.3
Graeme Rocher talks through the latest Async features offered by Grails and how they can be used to create non-blocking REST APIs.
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What Makes a Great API?
John Musser explains how to transform a good API into a great one based on his experience with thousands of APIs at ProgrammableWeb and API Science.
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Evolution of the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes Netflix API's evolution to a web service platform serving all devices and users, the challenges met in operations, deployment, performance, fault-tolerance, and innovation.
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RESTful Groovy
Kyle Boon reviews 3 frameworks for building RESTful WS- Grails, Dropwizard and Ratpack-, comparing their code readability, maintainability, deployment, metrics collection, scalability and testability.
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Big Data Platform as a Service at Netflix
Jeff Magnusson details some of Netflix' key services: Franklin, Sting and Lipstick.
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Building APIs with Grails
Bobby Warner discusses the pros and cons of the available options that Grails developers have for creating RESTful APIs.
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Enabling Cloud Services with Programmability
Chris White shares Riverbed’s experience using REST across multiple products, being integrated with Python, JavaScript, OpenStack, Puppet, Django, jQuery, and other technologies.
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RESTful Clojure
Siva Jagadeesan on how to build good web APIs using Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) and Clojure, showing how to build one with Clojure.
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Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong
Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs.
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No Link Left Behind
Paul Downey explains what they did to redirect all traffic from DirectGov and Business Link to gov.uk, along with the tools, techniques and testing involved for the operation to succeed.